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A CAH is a hospital in a rural area that must meet certain requirements to qualify and be certified as a CAH.
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Note from a Speaker | A primer on CDI in critical access hospitals | By Jacie Kramer, RN, BSN The critical access hospital (CAH) was born out of the effort to protect access to healthcare in rural areas and ensure a hospital could remain viable despite the low and variable volumes that come along with the hospital’s location. A CAH is a hospital in a rural area that must meet certain requirements to qualify and be certified as a CAH. To meet these requirements, the CAH must: Only have 25 inpatient beds (these beds may also be used for swing-bed, or multi-use, services) Be more than a 35-mile drive from any other hospital Be more than 15 miles from any other hospital in mountainous areas or access only by secondary roads Provide emergency services 24/7 Have an average length of inpatient stay of 96 hours or less. |
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ACDIS Picks | General session recap: Joe Flower talks future of healthcare and patient data | This morning, healthcare futurist Joe Flower took the stage to kick off this year’s ACDIS conference in San Antonio by sharing a robust vision of healthcare’s future—from technological innovation that leads to integrations of care from providers to payers to patients. Flower laid out a new periodic table for healthcare during his session, divided into four quadrants: Drivers (patient, physician, etc.) System Payment Technology |
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